Posted in Religion, Science on Mar 30th, 2010 | Viewed 973 times
Sam Harris has made an excellent albeit a bit short TED talk about science and moral questions: He naturally got a lot of negative critique for this talk. He is not claiming that science can dictate morals exactly, what he is saying is that there are moral truths to be known. The fact that science [...]
Posted in Science on Nov 24th, 2009 | Viewed 1509 times
Yesterday a test run of the Large Hadron Collider at CERN produced the first collisions and collision data after 20 years of construction and preparations. They produced collisions in ATLAS, ALICE, CMS and LHCb. The beam was running at injection energy, so no acceleration. Next steps will be to crank up the power. This is [...]
Posted in Pseudoscience, Religion, Science on Oct 9th, 2009 | Viewed 1626 times
This excellent YouTube video takes care of the accusation we sceptics often has thrown after us that we need to be more open-minded. This always bugs me because my inquisitive mind is very open to new ideas. I’ve spent most of this year learning quantum physics for fucks sake. Being open-minded is however not the [...]
Posted in Pseudoscience, Religion, Science on Oct 6th, 2009 | Viewed 1168 times
A talk by physicist Steven Weinberg. It is well worth the listen. “Steven Weinberg, Professor of Physics and Astronomy at the University of Texas at Austin, where he founded its Theory Group and holds the Josey Regental Chair of Science, was awarded the 1979 Nobel Prize in Physics with colleagues Abdus Salam and Sheldon Glashow [...]
Posted in Books, Religion, Science on Jul 19th, 2009 | Viewed 462 times
The Bible Unearhed is a book written by the archaeologists Israel Finkelstein and Neil Asher Silberman. It covers the historical parts of the old testament of the Bible and how it fits into the picture archaeology in the Middle East paints of its ancient history. Not surprisingly it turns out that most of the early [...]
Posted in Religion, Science on Jun 7th, 2009 | Viewed 535 times
This is an interesting video of a lecture by Professor Robert Sapolsky, anthropologist at Stanford. It explores some of the evolutionary reasons behind religion. Source: blip.tv/file/2204956
Posted in Pseudoscience, Religion, Science on May 29th, 2009 | Viewed 452 times
This story popped up both in my New Scientist and my Panda’s Thumb feeds today. New Scientist: Christians battle each other over evolution Panda’s Thumb: But it’s not about religion … So basically, we have the Discovery Institute, the pseudo-scientific Seattle organization, promoting Intelligent Design, who has launched a new website, Faith+Evolution. There they ask: [...]
Posted in Pseudoscience, Religion on May 24th, 2009 | Viewed 975 times
So, Michael Behe is still at it, 13 years after his book, Darwin’s Black Box, which has been a complete failure in proving Intelligent Design. Apparently a recent article in Science (or read the blog article) has caused Behe to write a letter in response, which Science did not wish to publish, naturally. Instead Behe [...]